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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1917
Page
6
County News reports numerous visitors and travels across Ossian Calmar Decorah Castalia Monona and Dubuque. Names include Mrs Hauge Bothell Hauber Spinner Bullard Logsdon Duffy and many more. A March 29 1917 wedding Emma Koenig to Richard Thorgeson at Reformed Church is described with details of ceremony reception and plans to move to Ambrose North Dakota.
Community tidbits from Burr Oak dated April 3 1917 report Sunday visits and travels including Harold Seelye with Paul Wanless Hazelt Cox trip to Minneapolis Mrs Roy Wanless ill with quinsy. New baby born March 20 to Mr and Mrs Henry Price. Rentals and moves wrap up itemized names including Wicks Reed Perry Whitney Arnold Koenig and Bergman among others.
Alfred Gulrud visited relatives in Decorah Friday while Will Ticekotter went on a business trip to Decorah Monday. Theo Anderson of Springwater was a Clay Mill caller Sunday. Mrs Mary Erickson entertained company from Decorah. Grace Malli visiting her aunt Mia. Annie Hogan in Decorah. Lawrence Bolson spent Saturday evening with friends near Locust. Miss Lizzie Williams of Spillville visiting home folks. Margaret and Lizzie Williams visited relatives in Decorah Tuesday. Mrs C Gross and daughter Hattie visited Walter Gross family in Freeport Tuesday. Ida Grinna and Miss Anna visited parents Mr and Mrs Moen in Decorah Tuesday. Mr and Mrs F C Bolson and daughter guests at Walter Stortz home Sunday. Phoebe Wilma Sorenson and Hattie Elizabeth Gross spent Sunday with Hazel Stortz.
High Ridge and Decorah residents are listed as callers, visitors, and helpers over the past week. Names include Henry Running, Gjermund Haugen, Ole Halvorson, Andrew Lee, Oliver Nelson, Hannah Strand, Anton Anderson, Clarence Russett, Mildred Sjoboen, Josephine Kolseth, Laura Kolseth, Geneva Landsrud, H Baardson grandparents, Laura Kolseth, Grace Sjoboen, Anton Larson, E Danielson, and Agnes Bee. Social visits include house duties, wood chopping, and a surprise party at Tom Iverson's, with many staying with family. Agnes Bee visited Prairie du Chien to see her ill brother Selmer.
Annual report of Decorah Iowa City Clerk for year ending March 31 1917 details appropriations and expenditures across sewer, streets, health, library, fuel, fire, police, water, and park funds. Includes bonded indebtedness total 96200.00 and property assessments 44200.00 with multiple line items for receipts and transfers and balances on hand.
City clerk F M Hughes submits a weekly weather summary for the Upper Mississippi Valley and Plains States issued by the U S Weather Bureau. Forecast calls for generally fair weather and temperatures slightly below normal for the coming week with bond indebtedness balances noted and miscellaneous figures. A late ad promotes Deans Regulets for bilious attacks.
Castalia gossip notes Mrs Jas Harvey on sick list Ed Hansons move into Gibbs residence visits from Clermont and Bruce residents J H Kneeskern returns from St Paul Harold Bernhard visits parents at Clermont Miss Ivy Allen abroad and Addie Shipton back from Bellevue families W C Winn Alva A Christofferson Elzie Albright Decorah visits and local movements Growth in street battery issues for electric plant and notes from the Decorah and county contests with Edison style speakers and prize winners
The article proclaims corn farming as central to the state's prosperity and urges Towa boys to join corn club work. It outlines aims including improved agriculture methods business training responsibility and lasting interest in farm progress.
J Furry of Salem Massachusetts writes of suffering four to five years from bladder trouble and pain until Foley Kidney Pills provided relief after trying various medicines. Engbertson's Pharmacy advertises the remedy. A remark on abnormal chest expansion follows.
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